Syrup inspired by Scentsy's Black Raspberry Vanilla Scent

Our neighbors shared their raspberries with us.  My hubby made fresh raspberry vanilla syrup for our French toast from them. It tasted and smelled so great! 

Lol -- He says he was inspired by Scentsy's Black Raspberry Vanilla scent.  It's one of their most popular scents.  

I've had several requests for his recipe, but it's been hard to corner him long enough to recreate his recipe. 

I know he strained the raspberries, used real vanilla and agave was his sweetener vs. sugar.  When I asked him about his recipe, as I expected, he just made it up on the fly.   Since he was making it low carb he used ingredients you may not have on hand like xantham gum to thicken it. 

Homemade Pizza

My husband was in the mood for his Mother's homemade pizza for lunch.  It's so easy to whip up the crust and we didn't even wait to let it rise.  Our youngest was my helper and he put half pieces of string cheese near the edges and folded over the crust so it was like a Pizza Hut too.  It really did taste oh so good!  I hope you'll give it a try.

Title: Mom Adams' Pizza Crust

Description:
Made overseas over the years when pizza was not available to her children.  Now requested of Grandma at every family gathering, especially for birthdays.

Ingredients:
1 c luke warm water
1 T sugar
1 T yeast
2 T olive oil
1 t salt, scant
3.5 cups white flour

Hunt's Garlic and Herb Spaghetti Sauce

Directions:
Dissolve yeast in water with sugar. Add remaining ingredients and knead. Let raise 15-20 minutes.  Grandma just uses spaghetti sauce nowadays, but used to make her own sauce.

Add whatever toppings you enjoy.  She uses onion, green pepper, sausage, pepperoni, hamburger or ground turkey, mushrooms, cheese, etc. (I also like artichokes, black olives and tomatoes.)

Bake 425 about 15-20 minutes.

Don't get saucy with me!

Our kids didn't know what it meant when Dad told one of them, "Don't get saucy with me." I said that a sauce adds flavor or spice to something bland like pasta, rice, potatoes, etc. Well, I was in the middle of making Alfredo sauce for the first time. Last night we had spinach ravioli, which we boiled and served marinara sauce over. We boiled way too much, so we had ravioli for leftovers today, but wanted a different sauce.

One of ours made the observation that whatever has sauce has more calories. She is so right and is on a sauce strike, but our pickiest eater loved it!

You've probably made it hundreds of times, but since I had never made Alfredo sauce, a quick google search showed me the basic ingredients and directions over and over again listed below.

Alfredo Sauce
Ingredients:
1 cup butter or margarine
1 1/3 cups heavy cream
2 1/2 cup grated *Parmesan cheese
1/4 teaspoon salt
dash of pepper

I melted the butter and milk in a frying pan, then removed it from the heat and added the cheese, salt and pepper. *We didn't have enough parmesan cheese on hand, so I used shredded mozzarella and some swiss cheese.

Our vegetable was asparagus and the sauce even tasted great over it, as did the toasted bread the rest of us dunked into olive oil.